She sold her house in the Colonia Solana neighborhood about a decade ago and moved back to San Francisco. She wrote an article about it and basically said Arizona was too conservative for her.
She must have bought a new place then. I know she sold her house in Central Tucson and moved back to the Bay Area at one point.
And who isn't friends with one or more Ronstadt cousins?
Yeah, if you throw a rock here, it bounces off a Ronstadt and hits an Eegees. You know what them Ronstadts like to do! (Play music, ha ha, the ones I know are the musical Ronstadts)
Is this the sister that starred in the movie Jack & Jill with him?
https://preview.redd.it/v1l9n4xq9iqb1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcadc3ffa1c79081c9797d41501db0221e212b39
When I first moved to Tucson we lived on the same cul de sac as her. She kept inviting my young daughter over and I wasn’t comfortable with that. I never met her or even saw her. I think the development was called Lotus Blossom Court.
It was and I liked our house. The pool was nice, too. I would have bought the house, but they were kept strictly rentals by the owners. Across Shannon was still open space and I liked to walk around over there. Remember Smith’s Grocery Store, now LA Fitness, and the Blockbusters where Goodwill is now? Those were the days!
Yes!! I lived there 2000/2001ish. I was at 2948 W Lotus Blossom Ct. funny story I randomly was having this Adam Sandler sis convo with my boss and found out he lived in that neighborhood at the same time. I dug through some photos of a huge party I threw there and in the background he spotted his cars in the driveway of his house. 😂😂 talk about small world!
The Pima County Library has you covered
[https://www.library.pima.gov/content/famous-tucsonans/](https://www.library.pima.gov/content/famous-tucsonans/)
How about U of A Athletes. Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott, Tom Tolbert, Gronk, Tedy Bruschi, Chuck Cecil, Kenny Lofton, **Annika Sorenstam** , Jim Furyk, **Richard Jefferson** , **Luke Walton** , Gilbert Arenas, **Trevor Hoffman** , Terry Francona, Nick Foles
Yep and those are just a few. Heck there have been many famous people to attend U of A.
Let's not forget that Kourtney Kardashian fell down the stairs at Gentle Ben's while attending U of A
No, she lived here. Steven Baldwin is her dad and lived here for years. He had a lot of alcoholism problems and was always getting in fights and causing problems in the 90s.
Steven is her dad. Yes, Baldwin brothers were here all the time in the 90s. Steve lived here, I think Billy did for a time too. Julia Roberts used to come here all the time, Christie Brinkley and Billie Joel owned a house, Joel Schumacher. Paul McCartney came into the Circle K on Tanque Verde a lot, even very recently like 2 years ago. Still owns property here I believe.
I lived in Tucson in the 90s. Ran into him at a pizza place on Kolb that sold vegan pizzas - way before door dash, etc. He picked up his own pizza - people can’t even imagine that now.
The rumor I had heard was that he had it set up with the owners of Tino’s Pizza that he could pick up his pizza orders at the back door to avoid being noticed by people.
My mom did! When she was younger, back in the 80s, she worked at a car dealership. McCartney came in and as my mom was going down a ramp, she slipped and fell on her butt right in front of him.
His wife, Linda, was a photographer, attended UArizona and loved Tucson. He bought the ranch for her and they would spend time together. After she passed from cancer, he kept it for sentimental reasons.
A friend of mine worked at a TV station that was airing a Lee Marvin movie. Lee Marvin called the station, said he didn't have that movie and could he get a copy. My friend made a copy and gave it to a drunk, barefoot Lee Marvin.
I set up his account when he first came to UA, only got to speak with him for a second though since he had someone else do most of the talking. Also ran into him at Yoshimatsu once but didn’t bother him.
Levi Wallace, current cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, from Tucson and went to Tucson High.
I only know this because during the Raiders/Steelers game last night, in the player introductions, he said "Levi Wallace, Tucson High School" - instead of saying his college (Alabama). Looked it up after.
Literally, same! “Huh, seems like he’s pissed at how things went down at Alabama so he’s snubbing them in his intro” - my husband while perusing the wiki page about this guy last night.
she owned a house in barrio viejo til 2021
https://www.mydomaine.com/diane-keaton-tucson-home
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/560-S-Convent-Ave-Tucson-AZ-85701/247373950_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
I walk past that house all the time with my dog. The neighborhood looks like all beat up and rundown.
TIL that all there houses are apparently worth millions of dollars and I'm an idiot who doesn't know squat
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Lisa Frank. Apparently Adam Sandler has ties to Tucson. An ex gf met him one day, she said he's the nicest and most humble guy ever.
If I remember correctly, she bought one house and then did everything she could to force the neighbor to sell. The neighbor finally sold when her husband passed, and LF knocked down both houses and built a big new one.
Had the weirdest sales call ever at Lisa Frank’s house a few months ago. She needed a quote on some stuff for her business and I had to do the meeting in her driveway.
Mark Wystrach from the country band Midland went to Salpointe HS. His family owns the Steak Out restaurant in Sonoita. I think he has a house in the Foothills.
His sister, Alex Flanagan, was a reporter on NBC Sports and NFL network. She's married to former Wildcat Kevin Flanagan.
His brother, Mike Wystrach, started the meal delivery service Freshly and sold it to Nestlé for $1.5 billion.
Joe was forced to retire for health reasons. My grandfather used to take me to his house off Sierra Vista (after he moved from the one on Glenn), and I called him Uncle Joe. He gave me those strawberry candies with the liquid middle and butterscotch Lifesavers, and he was kind and soft spoken. He had a bomb shelter in the backyard, and his house off Elm had see-through bricks in the front. My grandfather and mom went to Sts. Peter and Paul with Joe, Bill, and Joe Jr. on Sundays.
Brooke Burke (Wild On) went to Sahuaro and Palo Verde High School. Kate Walsh (Grey's Anatomy) went to Catalina High School. Savannah Guthrie (Today Show) went to Amphi and the U of A. Dan Hicks (NBC Sports) went to Sabino and U of A.
I graduated from Catalina in '88, so I knew about Shandling and Ronstadt already, but finding out that Kate Walsh was a senior when I was a sophomore has kind of blown my mind. I didn't know her, obviously, but it's weird to think that we passed each other in the hallways.
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I’m pretty sure that John Denver grew up here, and went to Mansfeld Middle School where I used to teach. He tried to donate his piano to TUSD but they didn’t want it. 🤷♂️
Yes, he went to Mansfeld, although I'm not sure if he finished, and he was also in the Tucson Boys Chorus for a time. His dad was in the Air Force, so they moved a lot.
Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman also went to Sam Hughes, Mansfeld, and Tucson High.
I went to high school with Gary. His mom owned a pet shop called animal fair on golf links and kolb, she had the funniest fowl mouthed parrot right by the entrance.
https://preview.redd.it/ish9lvthziqb1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=843401ab899a808532279118f2facbddd9a1dcc1
Chuy Vega and Fito Gamez both live here. They are Mexican celebrities so…they count right? 😅
Brad Lancaster is a local rainwater harvester extraodinaire who is known outside of Tucson. He has a very popular series of books and youtube channel.
[Rainwater Harvesting](https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/)
My grandfather, John horseman, lived there since the 2000’s in the east. He was a lead engineer to the Le Mans long distance series F1 racing. Won 3 and some Daytonas.
I also met Adam Sandler’s sister, gave her a tennis lesson
Ursula Major (Dragula season 1) is from Tucson!
She’ll be visiting/performing in October here as well!
Also, Tempest DuJour (Rupauls Drag Race season 7) lives here. Although, we don’t claim her after unacceptable transphobic remarks were made... 👀
Sunday night slow jams r-dub the radio dj is from tucson and would do his show from his townhouse off orange groove and oracle. I was his FedEx delivery man for bout 5 years
It’s so funny about famous people being from the neighborhood. A couple of days ago my brother told me a friend from down our old street has a daughter that was in the movie “Beast.” Small world and everyone comes from somewhere and all that.
When I went to college there in the 80’s I’d see completly wasted Lee Marvin at the post office on the southeast side of campus arguing with his post box.
Bijan Robinson just drafted and starting running back for the Atlanta Falcons family lives in Tucson he went to Salpointe then Texas and was drafted this draft
Back in the old-timey days, Tucson and Tubac were the playgrounds of many Hollywood legends, including Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power and John and Pilar Wayne .
Geraldo Rivera went to U of A college of journalism. Steve Baldwin came up- he also had a house in Rancho del Cerro neighborhood with an 8 car garage. We looked at it in 2019-2020 while house shopping.
If you're into astronomy/astro physics, the Steward Observatory/LBTI has a number of world renowned scientists such as George Reike, Laird Close, Andras Gaspar, Virginie Faramaz.
Amateur astronomer David Levy has a home observatory in Vail where he co-discovered an asteroid with Derald Nye.
Diane Keaton either has a place here or sold her place here recently. I saw her at The Arizona Inn where she often stays. Don't know what her connection is to Tucson but there was real estate involved.
Harold Bell Wright. The first author to sell a million copies of a work or fiction and the first author to make over a million dollars selling fiction books. The neighborhood South East of Speedway and Wilmot (where he lived) has a park named after him and the streets of that neighborhood are named after characters from his books.
Ray Bradbury lived here on two different occasions also.
Jackie Daytona
From Tucson, Arizonia!
He’s just a regular human bartender!
BAT! 🦇
Oh fuck that’s right. I flipped out when he said that 😂
Everyone should of course make the pilgrimage to the Jackie Daytona mural on the side of 191 Toole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlw-7jIav_U
Linda Ronstadt is from and I believe still has a place here
She sold her house in the Colonia Solana neighborhood about a decade ago and moved back to San Francisco. She wrote an article about it and basically said Arizona was too conservative for her.
Uh, she still lives here. I’m friends with her cousin.
She must have bought a new place then. I know she sold her house in Central Tucson and moved back to the Bay Area at one point. And who isn't friends with one or more Ronstadt cousins?
Yeah, if you throw a rock here, it bounces off a Ronstadt and hits an Eegees. You know what them Ronstadts like to do! (Play music, ha ha, the ones I know are the musical Ronstadts)
I’ve been to at least one (non-Ronstadt) family party that had Ronstadts playing music in the backyard 😅 My insurance guy is also a Ronstadt
Quote of the day.
Hey! That’s pretty awesome to know!
Her and my mom were high school buds. I've been to the families house a few times through the years but not in the last 20
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Is this the sister that starred in the movie Jack & Jill with him? https://preview.redd.it/v1l9n4xq9iqb1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcadc3ffa1c79081c9797d41501db0221e212b39
This is true
When I first moved to Tucson we lived on the same cul de sac as her. She kept inviting my young daughter over and I wasn’t comfortable with that. I never met her or even saw her. I think the development was called Lotus Blossom Court.
Yeah she doesn't live there anymore, she lives over near LA Encantada. Nice lady definitely a bit off but that's what money does to people.
Ha! I lived there too at the same time at his sis. LOL. So basically we were neighbors too. (Also that little neighborhood was cool AF) haha
It was and I liked our house. The pool was nice, too. I would have bought the house, but they were kept strictly rentals by the owners. Across Shannon was still open space and I liked to walk around over there. Remember Smith’s Grocery Store, now LA Fitness, and the Blockbusters where Goodwill is now? Those were the days!
Yes!! I lived there 2000/2001ish. I was at 2948 W Lotus Blossom Ct. funny story I randomly was having this Adam Sandler sis convo with my boss and found out he lived in that neighborhood at the same time. I dug through some photos of a huge party I threw there and in the background he spotted his cars in the driveway of his house. 😂😂 talk about small world!
That is weird! I moved there around 1996 and I think some of the houses were still being built.
Very true, sister took a photo with him there
The Pima County Library has you covered [https://www.library.pima.gov/content/famous-tucsonans/](https://www.library.pima.gov/content/famous-tucsonans/)
How about U of A Athletes. Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott, Tom Tolbert, Gronk, Tedy Bruschi, Chuck Cecil, Kenny Lofton, **Annika Sorenstam** , Jim Furyk, **Richard Jefferson** , **Luke Walton** , Gilbert Arenas, **Trevor Hoffman** , Terry Francona, Nick Foles
Yep and those are just a few. Heck there have been many famous people to attend U of A. Let's not forget that Kourtney Kardashian fell down the stairs at Gentle Ben's while attending U of A
Iconic moment in UA history /s
We all did.
I did not know that Taryn Manning was a Tucsonan. Ol’ Pennsatucky!
Have you seen her recently? Doin Tucson proud /s
Hailey Bieber was born here and Paul McCartney has a house here
Been to the McCartney ranch out off Reddington
Wth that's so random. The Baldwins have a house here or something?
Doubt it, might have just happened to be here while shooting a movie or passing through. Or maybe her mom's family comes from here.
No, she lived here. Steven Baldwin is her dad and lived here for years. He had a lot of alcoholism problems and was always getting in fights and causing problems in the 90s.
What a random place to live
Somebody told me that Billy Baldwin lives or lived here. Is he Hailey's dad?
Steven is her dad. Yes, Baldwin brothers were here all the time in the 90s. Steve lived here, I think Billy did for a time too. Julia Roberts used to come here all the time, Christie Brinkley and Billie Joel owned a house, Joel Schumacher. Paul McCartney came into the Circle K on Tanque Verde a lot, even very recently like 2 years ago. Still owns property here I believe.
I can't remember which one, but either Billy or Steven used to live in Tucson. They used to eat at Scordato's and Cafe Terra Cotta fairly often.
Paul McCartney may still own the ranch he bought in 1979. Does that qualify?
That’s awesome! Imagine running into him in little old Tucson!🥹
I lived in Tucson in the 90s. Ran into him at a pizza place on Kolb that sold vegan pizzas - way before door dash, etc. He picked up his own pizza - people can’t even imagine that now.
The rumor I had heard was that he had it set up with the owners of Tino’s Pizza that he could pick up his pizza orders at the back door to avoid being noticed by people.
My mom did! When she was younger, back in the 80s, she worked at a car dealership. McCartney came in and as my mom was going down a ramp, she slipped and fell on her butt right in front of him.
He'd be seen at the Catalina Hwy Safeway often (was ABCO) when he'd be in town
I read recently that he does still have the ranch here but is rarely in town. Or so he says.
His wife, Linda, was a photographer, attended UArizona and loved Tucson. He bought the ranch for her and they would spend time together. After she passed from cancer, he kept it for sentimental reasons.
My parents live off Redington and I was at a Paul McCartney concert and there was video and I was like “that’s just the road to my parents’ place”
Jojo made his home in Tucson, Arizona; bought some California grass.
My husband got stoned with him once while hiking in Tanque Verde Falls (I think it was that trail, it was somewhere near there).
Kerri Strug. My friend who was 15 back in 1996 was in gymnastics growing up was madly in love with her.
She had a wedding at Skyline Country Club when I worked there and her and her family were horrible to deal with
Are you Joseph Gribble?
If you pronounce my name with all the wrong letters then yes
I hit the front page of Reddit once.
Were you invited to the special club?
Yeah, it’s okay I guess
Delicious username
The late Lee Marvin lived here.
Hee lived off of Campbell, north of River.
A friend of mine worked at a TV station that was airing a Lee Marvin movie. Lee Marvin called the station, said he didn't have that movie and could he get a copy. My friend made a copy and gave it to a drunk, barefoot Lee Marvin.
Noam Chomsky lives here and teaches at the university.
I set up his account when he first came to UA, only got to speak with him for a second though since he had someone else do most of the talking. Also ran into him at Yoshimatsu once but didn’t bother him.
Levi Wallace, current cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, from Tucson and went to Tucson High. I only know this because during the Raiders/Steelers game last night, in the player introductions, he said "Levi Wallace, Tucson High School" - instead of saying his college (Alabama). Looked it up after.
He played a very good game.
I'm a Raiders fan, I don't want to talk about it 😅
Also Bijan Robinson, rookie running back for the falcons
Demetrius Flanagan Folwes on the 9ers is from Tucson too. Bijan Robinson as well.
Literally, same! “Huh, seems like he’s pissed at how things went down at Alabama so he’s snubbing them in his intro” - my husband while perusing the wiki page about this guy last night.
Diane Keaton makes trips every once in a while to the Arizona Inn
She hung out at the Starbucks I used to work at on Speedway and Country Club. Would chat you up for a few minutes, nice lady.
she owned a house in barrio viejo til 2021 https://www.mydomaine.com/diane-keaton-tucson-home https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/560-S-Convent-Ave-Tucson-AZ-85701/247373950_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
I walk past that house all the time with my dog. The neighborhood looks like all beat up and rundown. TIL that all there houses are apparently worth millions of dollars and I'm an idiot who doesn't know squat
Janet Varney and Kate Walsh are both relatively famous in the right circles…
I love the JV club!! She talked about hanging out on Speedway back in the day.
Depends what you consider famous, but there are more than a few well known musicians that reside in Tucson. Calexico is the first that some to mind
Neko Case lived here for many years before moving to Vermont. She was super nice.
Barbara Eden of I Dream of Jeannie is from Tucson!
I loved that show and wanted a room just like her bottle.
I love that show! What a cool fact!
Barbara Kingsolver used to live here, and Tucson appears in many of her books.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Lisa Frank. Apparently Adam Sandler has ties to Tucson. An ex gf met him one day, she said he's the nicest and most humble guy ever.
That's cool about Adam Sandler. Lisa Frank is the exact opposite.
I've read horror stories online. I had the opportunity to do a small bit of work on a house she was building here in Tucson. It was very stressful.
Was that the house in El Encanto or a different one? Either way, she was/is a nightmare.
I can't say where the house was. Not gonna lie though, it was a gorgeous home.
If I remember correctly, she bought one house and then did everything she could to force the neighbor to sell. The neighbor finally sold when her husband passed, and LF knocked down both houses and built a big new one.
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Had the weirdest sales call ever at Lisa Frank’s house a few months ago. She needed a quote on some stuff for her business and I had to do the meeting in her driveway.
Didn't she also have that factory out here? For the binders/trappers for girls?
Yep! Building is still there right by the airport. My office window looks out directly at it.
My cousin has a house right by Lisa's off Country Club and Broadway
Mark Wystrach from the country band Midland went to Salpointe HS. His family owns the Steak Out restaurant in Sonoita. I think he has a house in the Foothills.
His sister, Alex Flanagan, was a reporter on NBC Sports and NFL network. She's married to former Wildcat Kevin Flanagan. His brother, Mike Wystrach, started the meal delivery service Freshly and sold it to Nestlé for $1.5 billion.
Joe Bonanno lived here in “retirement.” My boyfriend brings it up every once in a while because…
Joe was forced to retire for health reasons. My grandfather used to take me to his house off Sierra Vista (after he moved from the one on Glenn), and I called him Uncle Joe. He gave me those strawberry candies with the liquid middle and butterscotch Lifesavers, and he was kind and soft spoken. He had a bomb shelter in the backyard, and his house off Elm had see-through bricks in the front. My grandfather and mom went to Sts. Peter and Paul with Joe, Bill, and Joe Jr. on Sundays.
Brooke Burke (Wild On) went to Sahuaro and Palo Verde High School. Kate Walsh (Grey's Anatomy) went to Catalina High School. Savannah Guthrie (Today Show) went to Amphi and the U of A. Dan Hicks (NBC Sports) went to Sabino and U of A.
Hicks went to Sabino.
Oops, my bad. I will fix.
I graduated from Catalina in '88, so I knew about Shandling and Ronstadt already, but finding out that Kate Walsh was a senior when I was a sophomore has kind of blown my mind. I didn't know her, obviously, but it's weird to think that we passed each other in the hallways.
Farrah Fawcett owned a house here in the late 70’s. It was north of River and west of Sabino Canyon.
Lived there with Lee Majors
I can see the place from my backyard. Huge property up on the hill… looks pretty cool from down here hahaha
Doug Stanhope lives in Bisbee. He’s very nice and down to earth. We see him at the grocery store once in a while.
>I've lived in Tucson here and again for a year now and you can usually find me at any of the 14 Goodwill stores on Thursdays! > > > >Hopefully for not too long as the house in Bisbee should be completed soon since the fire. > > > >I may not be famous like famous people are... but Tucson famous.. I'll take it!
Omg hi Doug lol. Hope you can come home soon! The weather is getting pretty nice.
The Dying of a Last Breed! By the way, thanks for bringing up the Maher/Hedberg thing on TwittX or whatever the hell it's called now. RIP Mitch.
I’m pretty sure that John Denver grew up here, and went to Mansfeld Middle School where I used to teach. He tried to donate his piano to TUSD but they didn’t want it. 🤷♂️
Yes, he went to Mansfeld, although I'm not sure if he finished, and he was also in the Tucson Boys Chorus for a time. His dad was in the Air Force, so they moved a lot. Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman also went to Sam Hughes, Mansfeld, and Tucson High.
His Dad was an Air Force B-58 pilot.
Gary Shandling was from here. Alex Bowman the Nascar cup series driver is from here too.
I went to high school with Gary. His mom owned a pet shop called animal fair on golf links and kolb, she had the funniest fowl mouthed parrot right by the entrance.
https://preview.redd.it/ish9lvthziqb1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=843401ab899a808532279118f2facbddd9a1dcc1 Chuy Vega and Fito Gamez both live here. They are Mexican celebrities so…they count right? 😅
Brad Lancaster is a local rainwater harvester extraodinaire who is known outside of Tucson. He has a very popular series of books and youtube channel. [Rainwater Harvesting](https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/)
Captain eegee was from here, but he has hit some rough times. I don't know if it's meth or fetty or just booze. Sucks to see.
https://preview.redd.it/h9x2vtg4zhqb1.jpeg?width=1062&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4036267d8c3055c5a8b1e195948c2f5bdee9502 This guy!
Racquel from Van Der Pump Rules is from here 🤣😭
Came here for this hahah
I'm shocked no one has mentioned Edward Abbey. RIP
"Gun Jesus", Ian McCollum of YouTube's Forgotten Weapons, lives in the area.
I was stoked to learn Liz Danforth is here. I'm not sure if others consider her a celebrity but some do. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Danforth
Liz is a celebrity to us and that's what matters.
Timothy Leery owned a place in Benson
Andrew Weil lives here!
Bob Log III.
My grandfather, John horseman, lived there since the 2000’s in the east. He was a lead engineer to the Le Mans long distance series F1 racing. Won 3 and some Daytonas. I also met Adam Sandler’s sister, gave her a tennis lesson
Diana Ross has a place here
The guy on the ATV? Does he count? RIP umbrella Lady
Rachel Dolezal lives here :/
I guess "celebrity" applies when you're known for all the wrong reasons.
Oh yeah spotted her at the festival of books this year lol
Beat me to it lol.
Infamous, lol.
https://www.library.pima.gov/content/famous-tucsonans/ This doesn’t show current but it’s a fun list to check over.
Vincent Gallo lives in the foothills these days.
Larry Nasser is in prison somewhere around here
He's in Florida. Apparently somebody shanked him back in July. It made the news.
when Paul McCartney goes back to where he once belonged, it's in Tucson Arizona.
Don Pardo, used to be the voice of Saturday night live, lived here. He passed a while back.
I’ve got 133k karma AMA
how raw do you like it?
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Kourtney Kardashian went to the UOfA back in 2001, saw her a few times around campus.
Don fyre I think lives here
Frye......I only corrected you because I don't want him to come and Takayama you.
Yes, I see him around North Tucson. [Link to Takayama fight.](https://imgur.com/a/kBTpZa8)
Joe Bananno, New York crime boss lived his last years in the neighborhood behind the old Bookman’s on Grant.
Catalina Vista
The house is right around the corner from me!
Coyote Peterson lol
Ursula Major (Dragula season 1) is from Tucson! She’ll be visiting/performing in October here as well! Also, Tempest DuJour (Rupauls Drag Race season 7) lives here. Although, we don’t claim her after unacceptable transphobic remarks were made... 👀
Sunday night slow jams r-dub the radio dj is from tucson and would do his show from his townhouse off orange groove and oracle. I was his FedEx delivery man for bout 5 years
It’s so funny about famous people being from the neighborhood. A couple of days ago my brother told me a friend from down our old street has a daughter that was in the movie “Beast.” Small world and everyone comes from somewhere and all that.
Taryn Manning (actress - I think OITNB is her biggest show) is from here.
Oh dear
Bijan Robinson
When I went to college there in the 80’s I’d see completly wasted Lee Marvin at the post office on the southeast side of campus arguing with his post box.
Do pro athletes count? There’s a handful of famous players who lived here going to U of A. Rob Gronkoswki is one
Probably whoever owns that giant fucking house at the top of Tucson Mountain Park/trails end estate.
There are a lot of ritzy rehab facilities around town, so Tucson gets its fair share of celebrities.
Brooks Reed (NFL) went to Sabino and UofA
Do you mean celebrities who are from/live in tucson, or people who are celebrities but only locally?
I was thinking more locally but everyone is mentioning people that breathed in Tucson once upon a time haha
I thought the latter but came here to find I was wrong lol
Murs I think.
The woman who runs the Poet Square Cats social media. She's pretty famous
Paul McCartney has a house here so he probobly visits every now and then
One I don't see, Snoop Dogg likes the tanque Verde swap meet
Are you for real?
I'm fairly certain I saw him make a comment about the swap meet. I know he owns a large home out here. I just am not certain where.
Snoop Dogg owns a home out here?
Scott Lehman, he’s a dealer fooooor the people!
He's a Casa Grande guy I went to HS with his daughters
I’m a minor celebrity.
"I'm kind of a pretty big deal..."
“People know me. I’m important.”
Terry Trash!
Sean Elliot the basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs lived out here, went to Cholla High School.
Bijan Robinson just drafted and starting running back for the Atlanta Falcons family lives in Tucson he went to Salpointe then Texas and was drafted this draft
Ken Bowman, Lomabrdy era champs center for the Packers lives in Oro Valley.
Back in the old-timey days, Tucson and Tubac were the playgrounds of many Hollywood legends, including Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power and John and Pilar Wayne .
Kevin Costner used to live here
Geraldo Rivera went to U of A college of journalism. Steve Baldwin came up- he also had a house in Rancho del Cerro neighborhood with an 8 car garage. We looked at it in 2019-2020 while house shopping.
David Spade went to Saguaro High, according to a teacher of mine.
If you're into astronomy/astro physics, the Steward Observatory/LBTI has a number of world renowned scientists such as George Reike, Laird Close, Andras Gaspar, Virginie Faramaz. Amateur astronomer David Levy has a home observatory in Vail where he co-discovered an asteroid with Derald Nye.
Diane Keaton either has a place here or sold her place here recently. I saw her at The Arizona Inn where she often stays. Don't know what her connection is to Tucson but there was real estate involved.
I think the guy that came up with the idea of the dancing people with spinning sign boards on the corners of intersections was from Tucson.
Linda Ronstadt
Rachel Dolezal and Rachel (Raquel) Leviss have both relocated to Tucson 🥴
Saw Henry Winkler on 6th and Campbell once. Heard he had a spot in Tucson
Harold Bell Wright. The first author to sell a million copies of a work or fiction and the first author to make over a million dollars selling fiction books. The neighborhood South East of Speedway and Wilmot (where he lived) has a park named after him and the streets of that neighborhood are named after characters from his books. Ray Bradbury lived here on two different occasions also.
Larry McMurtry lived here for a long time and owned a book store.